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cap–and–trade

adjective

Definition of CAP-AND-TRADE

:  relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance
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First Known Use of CAP-AND-TRADE

1995

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